Acceptance Quotes

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

Be content to seem what you really are.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.